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...Ferrari isn’t alone in this move: luxury car makers ranging from McLaren to Bugatti are finding ways to diversify into new sectors, from high-end luggage to designer fashion....
...The shinier Goldman boasts two Gulfstream jets, a partnership with McLaren’s Formula 1 team and consumer lending ventures with Apple and General Motors....
...Dr Pittard, who was among a group of medical experts who advised on minimum specifications for ventilators in early March, said the professionals had asked for devices that would work for the duration of...
...Relying on evidence provided by Dr Rodchenkov, the Canadian law professor Richard McLaren produced a devastating report on Russia’s doping scheme for the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada)....
...The Kremlin claimed that the McLaren report was part of a western conspiracy to humiliate the nation....
...From 2003 to 2005, he was a director of McLaren Automotive in the UK....
...That would make it Apple’s biggest acquisition since the $3bn purchase of Beats Electronics, the audio group founded by Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, in 2014....
...Dr Hintsa began working with F1 in 1998, and was chief medical officer at the McLaren team before establishing his own practice in the mid-2000s....
...Inspired by New Yorkers such as The Ramones, but with a pungent local twist, punk was fast and unschooled, a sped-up, Dr Martens-shod reboot of rock-and-roll....
...But then in 2011, the introduction of the drag reduction system (DRS) – which allows drivers to adjust the angle of their rear wing – reversed the trend immediately, elevating the number of passes per race...
...Held at the McLaren Technology Centre in Surrey, students were judged by a panel of engineers from both companies, and told the solution “had got to work, and had got to be commercial”....
...john.gapper@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Bribery laws are only as good as their enforcement / From Dr Robert Barrington...
...Another F1-derived technology used on the car is DRS (Drag Reduction System), which automatically reduces the angle of the car’s rear wing in order to cut down on wind resistance as speed increases....
...This is Red Bull’s fourth consecutive constructors’ championship, with Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes all left trailing in the Austrian team’s wake....
...Dave Shemmans, chief executive of Ricardo, the technology consultancy and engineer which works on the McLaren supercar and the Foxhound armoured vehicle, said that finding and retaining adequately qualified...
...12.5 per cent £10.25 Stone, Vine & Sun Dr Loosen, Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2007 Mosel Full, broad, enticing and intellectual nose. Good value....
...Hornby said the rivalry between Hamilton and Fernando Alonso in the McLaren team accelerated sales of the Scalextric models of their cars in the UK and Spain....
...“As he was folding it up, the assistant sniggered something about it being a ‘mugger’s special’,” McLaren recalls....
...Dr Loosen Blue Slate Riesling 2005 Mosel £8.99 larger Somerfields Screwcapped burst of super-reviving fruit. Just 8.5 per cent alcohol – an afternoon drink? Not bone dry but not super sweet either....
...Anne McLaren, embryology professor at Cambridge university, points out the controversial use of animal eggs to produce human embryos – not currently approved in the UK – is legal in the US....
...D’Arenberg, Hermit Crab Marsanne/Viognier 2003 McLaren Vale £7.99 Booths Opulent Rhône blend that will not improve but admirably over-delivers on flavour....
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